CARtoons, fate

Still going through my possessions as I prepare to move. Weird the things you discover. I was a great fan of CARtoons magazine when I was a child. I had a stack of them, which my parents mailed me some years ago.

CARtoons were comics for gearheads. Yet, by the time I was actually old enough to drive, the interest had passed. I never learned a fix a car. It was a phase.

I wonder what else would have flowered if the soil had been slightly different. Would I have a been better person if my development had been delayed by about a decade? Or worse? Or would nothing have been different? Are we as fixed in our fates as the worker ant and the moon in its orbit?